Individual Details

Served in Co. C, 19th Regt, AL Infantry.
Service records at Fold3.com:
Muster Roll Aug 17 to Oct 31, 1861
Enlisted Aug 1?, Mt. Pinson, Ala. for 3 years. Pay due from Enlistment. Present.
List of Confederate prisoners who have died in the Department of the Missouri
Captured at Shiloh. Gun Shot wound. Died 27 Apr 1862, at City Genl. Hospital, St. Louis
Register: Report of Killed, Wounded and Missing of the Second Corps, Army of the Miss., at the Battle of Shiloh, Apr 6 & 7, 1862.
Time and place of wound: 6th at 3 pm. Nature of wound: Bowels.
J. W. Higginbotham appears on a Report of men who lost their guns during the engagements of the 6th & 7th of April, 1862, near Shilosh. Headquarters, 19th Regt. , Alabama, 25 Apr 1862. Cause of loss: Wounded.

City USA Gen'l Hosp. St Louis Mo.
J. W. Higginbotham admitted 19 Apr 1862. He was a Rebel Prisoner with a Gun Shot wound. [in one place described as bombshell wound] Died 27 Apr 1862.

Birth	29 Jul 1833	Jackson County, Alabama
Military	1861 - 1862	Co C, 19th Regt, AL Infantry, Civil War
Death	27 Apr 1862	Saint Louis, Missouri

Father	William Wilkerson Higginbotham (1785 - 1844)
Mother	Nancy Little ( - )
Sibling	Elizabeth Higginbotham (1825 - )
Sibling	Robert B. Higginbotham (1829 - )
Sibling	Mary Ann Higginbotham (1831 - )
Sibling	Nancy Jane Higginbotham (1839 - )
Sibling	Ellinor Higginbotham (1841 - )